Sanatorium Escape - Demo
**You wake on a cold cot in an abandoned asylum. The doors are locked, the power is dying — and something is moving in the dark. You have minutes, not hours.**
Sanatorium Escape is a first-person horror escape-room adventure. Explore a decaying mental hospital, solve interlocking puzzles, and reach the exit before the emergency power fails — all while a relentless creature hunts the corridors. When it draws near, the lights flicker and your own heartbeat pounds in your ears. Your only defense is to vanish: slip into a locker or crawl under a bed and pray it passes.
## Descend deeper, survive longer
Three hand-built levels, each darker and more dangerous than the last:
- **Floor 1 — The Sanatorium** · 20 minutes. Keypads, blacklight codes, and improvised tools.
- **Level 2 — The Morgue** · 15 minutes. Fish a key from a drain, crack chained cabinets, make an offering at the crypt.
- **Level 3 — The Autopsy Wing** · 12 minutes. Steam valves, hand-cranked gates, live wiring — and a creature that's faster and almost never sleeps.
Every floor has its **own set of puzzles** — no repeated busywork. Cut a doctor's coat with scissors to find a battery, reveal hidden symbols under UV light, repair a blown fuse with copper wire, throw the right levers, and feed four (or more) fuses into the generator to unlock the way out.
## Features
- **Tense hide-and-seek horror** — a stalking creature, pounding-heartbeat proximity cues, flickering lights, and hiding spots (lockers, beds, morgue drawers).
- **First-person exploration + point-and-click** interaction — pick up items, combine them, read patient files, work keypads.
- **Distinct puzzles per level** — keypad codes, UV reveals, item crafting, key-and-lock doors, steam valves, lever sequences, wire-cutting, and more.
- **Oppressive atmosphere** — thick volumetric fog, flickering neon, blood-spattered walls, and a fully procedural, dread-soaked soundscape (no two playthroughs sound quite the same).
- **A 20-minute clock** that bleeds away to 15, then 12 — race it or die in the dark.
- **Per-level checkpoints** — die and retry the floor you fell on, not the whole game.
- **Bilingual — English & German**, switchable from the menu.
## How to play
`WASD` move · `Mouse` look · `Click / E` interact · `F` flashlight · `U` UV mode · `Tab` inventory & combine · `Ctrl` crouch · `Shift` run (but running is loud…).
## The catch
Running is fast but loud. Crouching is quiet but slow. The creature is patient. Restore the power, find the exit, and get out — before the last light goes out for good.
*A standalone Windows game. No internet required. Game is still in development*
